Getting the sender of an event?

javascript cross-browser

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Here you have a function. You just need to evaluate wich parameter is present in your event object

function getTarget(e){
  e=e||window.event;
  return (e.target||e.srcElement);
};

See: jQuery - how to determine which link was clicked

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Christian Graf

Updated on June 04, 2022

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Christian Graf almost 2 years
How can I get the sender of an onSubmit event in any browser? Or at least in FF and IE? Esp. as event.srcElementin IE seems to be the target? Well, isn't there anything like explicitOriginaltarget in browsers other than FF?

I'm looking for any solution in pure javascript, no JQuery.

What I want to do: I've got a form. And depending on the sender I want to do differnt actions in the onSubmit(event) routine.

What I got in my init function:
```
var top_most_form = document.getElementById("upper_menu_form");
top_most_form.onsubmit=function(event){

var target = <apparently magical things have to happen here>;

if ("upper_menu_form" == target.id) {
  AddSpinner();
  AddStarttimeToForm();
  AddThruputToUpperForm();
} else {
  return false;
}
```
- Diodeus - James MacFarlane almost 11 years
  
  possible duplicate of Find the button object that called the event with jquery or javascript
- apsillers almost 11 years
  
  By "depending on the sender", do you mean you have multiple forms with a shared handler function, or you have one form with multiple submit buttons?
- MaxPRafferty almost 11 years
  
  Can/are you willing to use JQuery? Could also be stackoverflow.com/questions/2351660/…
- Christian Graf almost 11 years
  
  No JQuery :( I've got one form with a submit button and some js functions, that call submit()
- MaxPRafferty almost 11 years
  
  How about stackoverflow.com/questions/831942/…
- MaxPRafferty almost 11 years
  
  Are you bubbling events at all? Or do you want, say, the "clicked" element?
- Christian Graf almost 11 years
  
  What is "to bubble events? I want the element, that has been clicked to submit the form.
- m90 almost 11 years
  
  The submit event will be fired by the form element itself, so you'll have a hard time finding the input that triggered it. Listening for clicks and then triggering the submit yourself should work though.
- m90 almost 11 years
  
  possible duplicate of Crossbrowser equivalent of explicitOriginalTarget event parameter
- Christian Graf almost 11 years
  
  Yeah, but this question is more than 5 years old.
Christian Graf almost 11 years

nope, the srcElement is -unfortunately- not the sender but the target :(
Wood almost 11 years

what about e.originalEvent || e.originalTarget; ?